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1828 Sept. 12
Blackstone Preface

3. Law as she is ought to be, is but in her teens. As yet, she
has not mounted on the throne anywhere. She has
learnt to be what she is, by observing what have been everywhere
the sad pranks played by her elder sisters: more
particularly Sister England.

4. Law as she pretends to be has been discovered to be
in fact no distinct personage – but one or other of the
Law-as-she-is's with a mask made in imitation
in imitation of the fair face of Law as she ought to
be. Conceive the old Lady-Goddesses each of them
whom she makes her appearances appears in the shape in that character holding
in her hand before her wrinkled face as well as she
can, this mask: but so clumsily, such is their decrepitude,
that between the real face and the mask a
chasm more or less wide – a solution of continuity
as medical men phrase it, is in every instance discernible.

Of all those Sisters wayward Sisters they may well
be called Lady Anglica is the only one in which whose operations our
reader will feel themselves in any it is imagined take
any lively very serious interest: only therefore how and then here and there, will and by way of giving a little variety to the scene
any of her sisters be brought upon the carpet called in, and brought upon the stage.

Identifier: | JB/031/123/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-09-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	123	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9809
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